Pierre Rousset explores “Kashmir, India, Pakistan: on the history and internationalist stakes of a state of war”. Joseph Daher details “Three Requisites for Syria’s Reconstruction Process”. Ilya Budraitskis argues ““The crisis of liberal hegemony is the reason why so many Europeans are turning to the extreme right””.
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- 17 May – Behind the News
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Ukraine
No to the Russian-US plan to annex Ukraine!
21 May, by Elias Vola, Gin Vola“If we want to avoid the worst-case scenario, namely Ukraine’s defeat and the strengthening of Russian neo-fascism, international solidarity must be stronger than ever.”
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Greenland
For a free and demilitarized Arctic – Defend Greenland’s independence – Defend the Greenlandic people and nature
20 May, by SAP (Denmark)With Donald Trump’s repeated demands that the US take over Greenland and his vice president J. D. Vance’s comments on the number of US military personnel in Greenland, the imperialist competition for Greenland has taken a decisive new step.
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Trump’s foreign policy
Trump Visits Arab Kings: Making Deals, Accepting Bribes, Shifting Policy
19 May, by Dan La BotzPresident Donald Trump visited three of the Persian Gulf monarchies last week, receiving adulation, praising the feudal regimes, making deals, and accepting bribes while also carrying out a significant shift in U.S. Middle East policy. Amidst beautiful palaces and mosques, surrounded by Arabian horses, and watching sword dances, Trump and the monarchs heaped praise on each other.
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Ecuador
Solidarity with Leonidas Iza, the Ecuadorean Indigenous leader – Against the far-right’s plans to reform the constitution and destroy rights
18 May, by Iain BruceSince the re-election of Daniel Noboa as President of Ecuador on 13 April, his hard-right, Trump-like administration, and most of the Ecuadorean establishment, have launched a ferocious campaign against Leonidas Iza, the President of CONAIE (the Confederation of Ecuador’s Indigenous Nations), and former presidential candidate of the Indigenous and plurinational movement, Pachakutik. They see him, and the communities, movements and struggles that he represents, as the main obstacle to their plans for a radical neoliberal reform to the constitution.
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Ukraine:
3 years into war, Ukrainian leftists fight for labor rights under martial law
17 May, by Theia Chatelle , Ana Babić, Vitaliy DudinUkrainian leftists face a double bind, caught between anti-labor governance in Ukraine and military attacks from Russia.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Portugal
“We want to be able to look further than the end of the month”
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Geopolitics
“For the Neofascists, the Law of the Jungle is the Only One That Makes Sense”
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Ukraine
‘Russia’s war no excuse for attacks on trade unions’
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Georgia
The fight for democracy, social justice, and equality in the Caucasus
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USA
What Will an American Pope Mean for the US?
Recently posted Features
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Obituary
Sergio, the irreplaceable comrade
25 September 2019, by Gigi Malabarbaread article...Sergio d’Amia died on 16 September 2019. His mother, an Italian Communist Party activist under fascism, then in the Resistance, signed him up at the age of 10 for the Pioneers, the organisation for the youngest communists (organising youth up to the age of 15), after which they could go on to the Fgci (Federation of Italian Communist Youth).
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Women
How Women Are Leading the Class Struggle
25 July 2019, by Brendan O’Connor, Cinzia Arruzzaread article...On Wednesday 12 May, 25,000 teachers in Oregon walked off their jobs, shutting down at least 600 schools across the state as part of a campaign for smaller class sizes, more nurses and guidance counselors, and better funding for public education (paid for by taxing the rich).
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Latin America
The Left and Right in Latin America Today: An Interview with Claudio Katz
21 June 2019, by Claudio Katz, Jeffery R Webberread article...On May 5, 2019 I spoke with Argentine economist Claudio Katz in his Buenos Aires apartment. We discussed themes from his last two books, Neoliberalismo, neodesarrollismo, socialismo (Neoliberalism, neodevelopmentalism, socialism, 2016) and La teorÃa de la dependencia, cincuenta años después (Dependency theory, fifty years later, 2018), as well as the complexities of the current regional conjuncture. In an incisive and wide-ranging survey, Katz explains the root causes and timing of the decline of the latest wave of Latin American progressive governments. At the same time, he emphasizes the fragility of the “conservative restoration” as it has unfolded in its wake, captured most eloquently perhaps in the paralysis of the Jair Bolsonaro government in Brazil.
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In Memoriam
Maria José Belo Meca Maranhão
11 June 2019, by Toupeira Vermelharead article...Dear comrades, we regret to report on the passing away on June 3, of comrade Maria José Maranhão. Brazilian anti-fascist, internationalist, trotskyist, revolutionary socialist, she was also a feminist, a social and labor activist, a geographer, university teacher and academic. "Zé" Maranhão graduated in Geography in the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1970.
Youth
The Fourth International’s Youth Camp
May 2025
The world is on fire and the authoritarian right aims to control and dominate us to ensure the survival of capitalism. But radical ecosocialist youth fight back!
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Radical Socialist Statement on Operation Sindoor
May 2025
The Indian Armed Forces have launched Operation Sindoor which has carried out strikes in as many as nine places spread over three cities in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Punjab province while a counter-strike by Pakistan, also to be condemned, has led to lives lost in Poonch. All this is an extremely worrisome development, though not entirely unexpected.
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On the Ongoing India-Pakistan Conflict and the Crisis in Jammu & Kashmir
May 2025
Press Statement Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party (JKAWP)
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Is the Agreement on Useful Kopalini useful to Ukraine?
May 2025
Today the Verkhovna Rada votes for ratification of the Agreement between the governments of Ukraine and the United States on the creation of the American-Ukrainian investment fund for reconstruction. Despite the loud promises of "partnership" and "investment", the document causes serious concerns.
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Escalating tensions between Pakistan and India
May 2025
Statement from the Haqooq Khalq Party (HKP) of Pakistan.
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